Radiohead

[matti at devo.com]

I just watched Radiohead play on Saturday Night Live(a nationally-distributed 
television show for those outside the USA); the keyboardist had behind him a 
large modular, played some synth or other with wooden side panels and some knobs 
and sliders.....with an interesting controller : attached to his finger was a 
string which ran into the the left side of the keyboard. As he pulled on the 
string, the pitch increased; as he let it retract, the pitch decreased. He did 
his vibrato very nicely with it.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how to implement this? I don't know the first 
thing about gears and such, but the best that I can think of, is using some 
mechanical parts to scale the half-meter or so range of motion on a keyboard to 
the few centimeters range of motion on a pot.

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